A Louisiana law now makes it a crime for web sites serving content harmful to minors to install age verification technology, but only for users who are in Louisiana. The law became effective on January 1st. The law says that any web site that intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors shall be held […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Source code is getting hacked more frequently these days. In March, Samsung announced that hackers had stolen source code to their Galaxy phones. Also in March, Microsoft said that hackers stole the source code for Bing, Maps and Cortana. In May Mercedes admitted that they had misconfigured a source code repository and anyone could download […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For you military types, BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): probably not. There are a number of reasons for my pessimism, including one I hadn’t considered. First the obvious reasons. The end of this legislative session is right around the corner and there are a lot of things that the folks in power want to get […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have never done this before; there is always a first time. I am going to copy an FBI warning here verbatim (minus some formatting changes inherent in the blog format). The short version is that hackers are using Google and ads to attack you. Also, we do sell some technical solutions that will assist […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The feds say that Epic Games, maker of the super popular game, Fortnite, has agreed to pay a fine of more than a half billion dollars to settle the charges. While Fortnite is free, players can buy in-game items like dance moves and costumes. There are more than 400 million users worldwide. The fine breaks […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Rackspace Tells Its 300,000 Customers That Impact of Ransomware was Limited Due to Their Great Incident Response (Not?) In what can only be called an amazing expression of tone-deafness, Rackspace says that due to their great incident response program, only their exchange users were shut down due to a ransomware attack. Needless to say, the […]
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